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Informationen zum Autor Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, a Danish linguist, specializing in English grammar. Steven Mithen referred to him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Otto Jespersen was born in Randers, Jutland. As a kid, he was attracted by the work of Danish philologist Rasmus Rask, and he taught himself Icelandic, Italian, and Spanish using Rask's grammar. He enrolled in the University of Copenhagen in 1877 at the age of 17, originally studying law but also learning languages. In 1881, he changed his entire concentration to languages, and in 1887, he received his master's degree in French, with English and Latin as secondary languages. In June 1886, Jespersen joined the International Phonetic Association, which was then known as The Phonetic Teachers' Association. In fact, in a letter to Paul Passy, Jespersen proposed the notion of constructing a phonetic alphabet that could be utilized by all languages. From 1887 to 1888, he visited England, Germany, and France, where he met linguists like as Henry Sweet and Paul Passy and attended lectures at universities such as Oxford. On the recommendation of his professor Vilhelm Thomsen, he returned to Copenhagen in August 1888 to begin work on his PhD dissertation on the English case system. He successfully defended his dissertation in 1891. Klappentext This book was first published in 1954. Zusammenfassung This book was first published in 1954. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introductory 2. Present tense 3. Auxiliaries of the perfect and pluperfect 4. Relations between the present and the perfect 5. Relations between the perfect and the preferit 6. The pluperfect 7. Tenses of the verbids 8. Tenses and auxiliaries in the passive 9. Imaginative use of tenses 10. Imaginative tenses continued 11. Indirect speech 12. The expanded tenses 13. Expanded tenses continued 14. Expanded tenses concluded 15. Will 16. Will. Continued 17. Shall 18. Shall. Concluded 19. Would 20. Should 21. Will, shall, would, should in indirect speech 22. Notional suvey 23. Predicatives after particles...
